Statement by the Prove They Are Alive! Campaign on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances Statement in PDF format On the solemn occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Prove They Are Alive! campaign stands in solidarity with all victims of forced disappearances in Turkmenistan’s prisons and […]
Statement by the Prove They Are Alive! campaign on the UN Human Rights Committee’ decision on Ogulsapar Muradova’s case The United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) has found the Turkmen government responsible for the torture and death of a human rights activist, the Prove They are Alive Campaign! said today. The activist, Ogulsapar Muradova, died in state […]
The Prove They Are Alive! campaign is pleased to learn that Saparmamed Nepeskuliev, a civic journalist and contributor to RFE/RL and Alternative Turkmenistan News, was released on May 19, 2018 after serving out his three year sentence. In July 2015, Nepeskuliev was arrested on drug possession charges, which are widely believed to have been politically […]
May 21 to 27 marks the International Week of the Disappeared. On this solemn occasion, the human rights campaign “Prove They Are Alive!” calls upon the government of Turkmenistan to restore the rights of the numerous detainees serving long-term sentences in Turkmenistan’s prisons, about whom no information is available since their imprisonment. We also call […]
Another Death of a Disappeared Person Underscores the Human Rights Crisis in Turkmenistan’s Prison System. The Prove They Are Alive! campaign has learned from Alternative Turkmenistan News and Chronicles of Turkmenistan that former Head of the Fourth Department of the National Security Committee of Turkmenistan, Allamurat Allakuliev, has died after sixteen years of being disappeared […]
The international human rights Campaign “Prove They Are Alive!” and a group of more than 30 civic activists and relatives and friends of victims of enforced disappearances in Turkmen prisons, living in Turkmenistan, called for an application of the OSCE mechanisms of response to human dimension crises, including the Vienna and the Moscow Mechanisms in […]
The Campaign “Prove They Are Alive!” published a book of poems written by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and former Representative of Turkmenistan to the OSCE, Batyr Berdyev, during his imprisonment. The book with the poems in the Russian original and English translation, produced by the Campaign, was distributed at a side […]
